Astrobiology

Dr. Jill Tarter The SETI Institute announced today that the California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows Medal, to Dr. Jill Tarter, SETI Institute co-founder and

This photo was selected by public vote and featured as “Image of the Week” for Week 244 (Oct. 12 – 18, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars. NASA’s

(A) Spectrally integrated flux map for CO on 2024 March 8. Contour intervals are in 1σ increments of the rms noise, with the lowest contour being 3σ. Sizes and orientations

The search for traces of life can be based on the detection of specific signatures produced by microorganisms on sedimentary rocks. Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISSs) develop under specific physicochemical

Cuts of the 3D magnetic volume of the fossil in three different heights: The blue/red colour indicates the in-plane component of the magnetisation, with magnetic moments swirling around a central

(a) Normalized age distributions p(τ | ) for single stars, binned in and smoothed using Gaussian filtering. Each vertical slice is normalized by its peak value. The blue line

The left panel shows a zoom of the GA and ethanol emission maps toward B0, B1 and B2 respectively, integrated over the velocity range km s−1 . The

JWST/NIRSpec image of Tau 042021 at 3.1 µm. The solid blue line represents the distance between the two nebulae and the dotted blue lines represent the limits over which we

A droid watching Mars rocks leaving for Earth — NASA The joint ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign is slated to be one of the most ambitious undertakings in the

HST/WFC3 NICMOS F212N image of NGC 7027 with JWST MIRI-MRS FOVs for channels 1 (red), 2, and 3 (white) overlaid. The black cross indicates the position of the central star.